Core Computational Facility @ UQ School of Mathematics and Physics

CCF (Core Computational Facility) @ UQ run by ITS / SMP

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Overview of Research Computing Infrastructure at UQ

There are a wide-range of world-class computing systems available to UQ School of Mathematics and Physics researchers.

NCI National Computational Infrastructure

Petascale computing resources available via NCI. Recommended to use MPI-based codes. In the HPC area, NCI currently operates:

A large-scale peak system - raijin (a Fujitsu Primergy cluster, which entered production in June 2013)

A small specialised system - fujin (a Fujitsu PrimeHPC FX10 system, commissioned in March 2013).

As well as other cloud-based and big-data systems. A number of SMP-based researchers have used this system, which requires an application for resources. Email the dogmatix list (smp-hpc@lists.science.uq.edu.au) to get some advice.

UQ Research Computing Centre

UQ Research Computing Centre established in 2011 under Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research. RCC Operates various systems including for QCIF - The Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation. Over several years a number of RCC grants have built up infrastructure.

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FlashLite: New $1M ARC-LIEF LE140100061 (2014 funded, with SMP's Prof. Michael Drinkwater) system coming soon: At Nov 2014 RCC Newsletter update: FlashLite isn't that specific yet ... think a couple of thousand core, quite a lot of main memory, lots of flash.

QRIScloud - The Queensland Node for NeCTAR and RDSI. Several QCIF services are available. This includes compute specific systems through virtual machines.

ITS

Responsible for all of the Schools across the University. The resources specifically allocated for SMP research computing are

Larger compute servers ie. smp-comp0x systems: smp-comp05.smp.uq.edu.au, smp-comp06.smp.uq.edu.au

cloud Windows Compute: uqscicomp01.qern.qcif.edu.au

smp-ts01.smp.uq.edu.au - Windows Remote Desktop

School of Mathematics and Physics

The School of Mathematics and Physics also has a dedicated HPC system maintained by ITS sysadmins.

The newest cluster is getafix (getafix.smp.uq.edu.au or smp-login-1.its.hpc.net.uq.edu.au) which includes all of the previous CPU nodes that were on dogmatix.
The other cluster is dogmatix (dogmatix.smp.uq.edu.au or smp-login-0.mgmt.science.uq.edu.au). dogmatix was built in four stages in late-2012, late-2013 and 2016. The master dogmatix node is currently a front end for the older nodes with Nvidia and Intel Xeon Phis, including the former standalone GPU clusters asterix and ghost.

Astrophysics Research Group

The Astrophysics group have the ghost GPU cluster with 34 Tesla GPUs. This has been merged into dogmatix.

This page last updated 13th March 2019. [Contacts/help]